Quotes, Verses etc...

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
 

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
 

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
 

​The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

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A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
 

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
 

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy Warhol

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
 

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso
 

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
 

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Art does not reproduce what we see, rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw